Metacritic reviews

The most exuberantly funny and smartest teen movie this summer, which is something to cheer about.

Clever, slightly edgy fun.

Jokes, cheerleading and a love story...not a bad way to spend a lazy afternoon.

It is Ms. Dunst who carries the movie and unifies its disparate elements. She's a terrific comic actress.

Unexpected late-summer treat.

A moderately entertaining, mostly inoffensive piece of filmmaking.

Predictable and surprisingly confusing in its ultimate message.

A strange mutant beast, half Nickelodeon movie, half R-rated comedy. It's like kids with potty-mouth playing grownup.

She (Dunst) provides the only major element of Bring It On that plays as tweaking parody rather than slick, strident, body-slam churlishness.

Absurdly unrealistic at times.